Jennifer

She is perfect and precious

I’m allergic to cats but do think they’re cute so I do appreciate the cat content. When I post my dog there’s a lot less fanfare even though he’s very cute

Daylight savings time is bad. It’s going to be pitch black when I wake up again for NO REASON. The extra hour of evening daylight (when sunset would be later anyway!) is not worth it.

This kid was extremely cute - when he would get to the top of the ladder he would say “here comes the tricky part” before swinging his leg onto the table lol

When I taught 2yos there was a giant kid in my class and we trained him to carry a ladder over to the changing table so we didn’t have to lift him multiple times a day.

I’m so sick of seeing people being cheered on for losing weight just so they can have a medical procedure. Why is it never on doctors to fucking DO THEIR JOBS BETTER????

Why don’t they consider EDs when studying GLP-1’s? Well fat people certainly can’t possibly have histories of disordered eating. Except we do - to a far greater degree than the medical establishment will acknowledge bc fat people with EDs get congratulated instead.

And I’m telling strangers all this personal information to really help everyone understand how fucked we are by the medical profession’s obsession with thinness as a marker of health. I cannot access medical care because the medical system doesn’t want me to.

Except I have gastroparesis, which is a major side effect of GLP-1s. And there is no fucking research on the impacts of people with a history of EDs, but my ED frequently made me so disgusted with food I wouldn’t eat for weeks. So it seems like a bad idea!

So why don’t I just lose weight like Katelyn? Because I have a history of disordered eating that I didn’t get any help with until like 4 years ago. And because my digestive issues limit what I can actually eat and my POTS limits my exercise. So now apparently I’m the target market for GLP-1s.

It’s a procedure that is done all the time. But surprise! My esophagus motility is poor so they can only do a partial fundoplication. A surgery I am apparently too fat for. Now, a very well respected Dr in NYC says I’m not, but I guess in PDX I am.

A post by Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) that reads: Down 14 Ibs in 6 weeks. At this rate I'll can schedule hernia surgery in 18 more weeks 6:18 PM •

Didn’t want to quote this because this is only tangentially related but I’ve had a hiatal hernia for years now, and there’s nothing they can do apparently because to repair it they would also need to repair the lack of a valve between my stomach and my esophagus. It’s called a fundoplication.

As a former streetcar commuter (riding nearly the entire NS line twice a day for a year) the 25 min headways, mixed traffic, no signal priority, and no solution but waiting for a tow truck if a car along the line was parked too far from the curb were killers.

When my friend’s son was a baby I got him a “smash the demon lizard patriarchy” onesie. It ruled

This is beside the point but please if you’re going to post something you want people to read and the picture has very small font, I BEG YOU TO USE THE ALT TEXT FEATUE to make it legible.

New Preschool for All Data Challenges Idea That Wealthy People Are Fleeing County In the years since 2021, when Multnomah County began collecting its Preschool for All tax, much has been made about the effect the program may be having on county income demographics. County data from...

The county has limited data about who’s paying its Preschool for All tax, which only went into effect in 2021. Still, some seized on a 14% dip in high-income filers between 2021 and ‘22 to suggest the tax drove wealthy ppl away. New data complicates that narrative.

Do I love my Catholic grandma so so much? Yes! Has she said some wild shit about Jews? Also yes! Would I want her to run for office? NO THANK YOU!!!!

Interfaith Jews with non-Jewish family, this is our time to shine!

You can be antisemitic even if you love one or more Jewish person. You can also be someone Jews are wary of because maybe you’re not a Nazi but you have said/done some concerning shit adjacent to antisemitism.

you need to understand that Platner is not just a candidate , he is a canary in the coalmine to a certain kind of man that the world has not changed and they still can get plush gigs and pole position in society and life with zero qualification and even less aptitude for the work .

I have 4 digestive disorders and am really restricted in my eating which is already hard while in recovery, but drs seem to think, “well if you can’t eat better, maybe you just need skinny drugs!”

I feel the exact same way. Even my doctors who know I’m in recovery won’t stop bringing it up. It’s always been a war against my brain but it’s become so exhausting.

When I was a teen I almost drowned in the ocean (the water was very cold) and my friend saved me. Years later she got engaged and I got to threaten her fiance by saying she once saved my life and I would not hesitate to save hers.

The hat…kind of has 3 corners…

I wrote a paper in grad school a few years ago about how the city has to decide what it wants with the CEID. It sends a lot of mixed signals with investment and policy while swearing up and down it has to remain industrial.

This bill just passed Oregon’s House & heads to the governor’s desk. Congrats to @senkhanhpham.bsky.social & team for shepherding a bipartisan housing reform that many people said could never happen. 🤩🏢

Lived in Montana, got made fun of for wearing blazers to bars lol

Fireman, grocer. I could not convincingly seem rugged despite that grandpa cred.

As it is with our clothing, so it is with our names. We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.

There’s no third option.

The Metro Chamber folks and their allies DO NOT want a thriving state economy. They want short term gains and lower taxes for themselves and their rich friends. When they demand shit like this we have to call them out as being greedy and unserious.

What do employers want when they relocate or open a new office? Things that will help them attract employees - adequate housing, high quality schools, amenities like parks and transit. This giveaway is so embarrassing - Oregon will never compete if it keeps showing its ass like this.